Posted on 11/03/2022 8:36:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri (PPSLR) has been advertising “free” vasectomies to underprivileged men in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
According to Planned Parenthood, uninsured men will be able to undergo a “free” (to them) vasectomy, which can cost up to $1,000, at three locations November 3-5 — in Springfield, Joplin, and St. Louis. The vasectomies will be performed in a mobile clinic. It’s advertised as “free” because Planned Parenthood will help the men access Medicaid (taxpayer-funded government health insurance) in order to pay for the vasectomies, which essentially means taxpayers will fund the sterilization of men who don’t currently have access to health insurance.
Planned Parenthood will, of course, still be paid for sterilizing the men.
Likewise, Dr. Esgar Guarin said he will take his own vasectomy mobile clinic — dubbed the “Nutcracker” — on the road this month in Iowa to give free vasectomies to 40 men, and will also offer discounted vasectomies at his clinic in the Des Moines area.
The abortion giant said it decided to entice men to get ‘free’ vasectomies following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June which reversed Roe v. Wade. Dr. Margaret Baum of Planned Parenthood insinuated that the fear of getting a woman pregnant and not being able to kill the preborn child in an abortion led to an increased interest in vasectomies — which may or may not be reversible if or when the men decide they are ready for children.
“Since the Dobbs decision we have seen an increasing number of male-bodied people coming and requesting this service,” Baum said. “We performed 142 vasectomies in 2021, already this year we’ve done close to 200 in 2022, and the year’s not out yet.”
But this increased number of vasectomies was something Planned Parenthood decided to encourage further. And yet, this enthusiastic targeting of underprivileged men — given the organization’s history of endorsing and participating in eugenic sterilization — leaves some concerned.
Planned Parenthood has been pro-eugenics since its founder Margaret Sanger created the American Birth Control League (later to become Planned Parenthood) in order to heavily promote birth control for certain women — namely the poor and minorities. She infamously argued that “undesirables” such as minorities, the poor, the disabled, and the mentally ill were “human weeds” who shouldn’t be allowed to “breed.” And Planned Parenthood’s birth control agenda was “aimed at cutting welfare costs” and “attacking poverty” by preventing poor couples from having children.
In addition, in the 1960s and 1970s, poor minority women were pressured into sterilization, and many had sterilization forced upon them. When an anti-sterilization feminist group, the Advisory Committee on Sterilization, was formed in New York City in 1975, it sought to end coercive sterilization but was met with resistance from Planned Parenthood as well as the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). These groups refused to protect vulnerable poor and minority women in order to protect access to abortion, which had been legalized in 1973. Planned Parenthood even led the opposition to a bill requiring a 30-day waiting period before sterilization.
So it should come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood’s Baum calls it “exciting” to sterilize these men and promotes both male and female sterilization as “great procedures.” Female sterilization is considered permanent.
“A female sterilization, which is a great procedure, has to be done in a hospital setting, under general anesthesia with entry into the abdominal cavity. (It requires) a couple weeks off work, and, certainly, much higher cost in terms of all the hospital and anesthesia and everything,” Baum said. “They’re both great procedures, but I think it’s really exciting to see so much interest in vasectomies.”
Population control has been a motivating factor behind the creation of and continued work of Planned Parenthood. With pro-life laws now protecting preborn children from abortion in a multitude of states, perhaps this is a sign that the abortion giant will begin to more fervently promote birth control and sterilization, especially for certain demographics.
Funny they never bragged about giving "Free Abortions". As Carol Everett said "if abortions are so good for women, why aren't they free?"
Either way it's good to see men taking control of this matter, I know they will be in by the truckloads now that roe is dead.
Some things you don’t want for free. Do you really want a free vasectomy? You get what you paid for.
I don’t think this is something new. I remember reading an article in the year 2000 that Planned Parenthood gave a free vasectomy to any man who wanted it. In the article one man who was a serious environmentalist God of vasectomy, and it said his girlfriend dumped him.
I have a feeling that girlfriends and wives who pressure their boyfriends or husbands to get a vasectomy, May dump them eventually. They may realize that that man is not as attractive to them anymore.
I have no problem with taxpayer funded permanent sterilization for those people that want it and can’t pay for it.
A lot better for society in the long term.
About time.
Probably these men should have some sperm frozen first, but if the don’t I guess this is their choice.
As a bonus when they go on an all expenses paid Maury vacation they already know...
For medical advice, I always consult with Cosmo Kramer first
Shouldn’t they just call themselves Planned Non-Parenthood? No, that would be too honest. If they wanted to be honest, they would call themselves Premeditated Infanticide.
This is going to be a huge disaster. People in general want fertility in a mate.
This is why men are not attracted to trans women or the the way around.
Wait, is "underprivileged" some kind of euphemism?
That's one reason.
I agree. Women who don’t want children will lose attraction for their boyfriend / husband. The ironic thing is they may go off birth control pills if the man has a vasectomy, which will actually make them desire a more masculine and fertile mate. So the combination of those two things may be disaster for the relationship.
What happened to 0bamaCare? I thought that was going to give everyone health care insurance?
Democrats pile lies on top of lies on top of lies ...
even if he wanted a snip job, no sane man is going to let a rabid man hating feminist (or her hireling) near his junk with a knife.
Maggie Sanger’s dream of sterilizing dysgenic and unwanted human being goes on...
Yep. Truth of the matter.
Do you really want a free vasectomy?
Or better, castration to join the Unique Eunuchs club.
IF PP all give themselves lobotomies first (for the planet dontchaknow), then we men will think about it for a second or two-
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